A group of University students will stage a funerary procession through campus with a casket that will represent the Climate and what will happen if our leaders do not commit to a binding global treaty on Climate Change.
At 12:00pm on Friday, Oct. 23rd, students at the University of Lethbridge will be holding a public rally to call on the government of Canada to commit to a binding global Climate treaty at Copenhagen this December. A mock funerary procession will commence from the University Atrium up to the front of the Student’s Union Building, where a eulogy for the climate and call to action will be delivered to our political leaders.
Students will be calling on Members of Parliament to stop the delay in passing Bill C-311, the “Climate Change Accountability Act,” which, if passed before Copenhagen, would situate Canada as a nation committed to a binding, global treaty on climate change. A recent agreement signed between India and China indicates that Canada is behind the times and needs to step up its action to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.
This event is part of an international day of climate action being organized by environmental and public interest groups all over the world in anticipation of the Copenhagen Climate talks.
Copenhagen presents our leaders with an historic opportunity to meet the most urgent challenge of our time: climate change. It could be humanity’s last chance to reduce greenhouse gas emissions below 350ppm (particles per million), which scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere. Current atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are around 390ppm.
This event is being organized by the Lethbridge Public Interest Research Group (LPIRG). For more information on the international day of climate action, visit www.350.org.
